ATO stands for alleviate tie offs. Alleviate means to relieve, lessen, %0Ato make (as suffering) more bearable. I find tie offs to be unbearable so this background fill is designed to stitch out to the center and back again, so trims will have few if any tie offs.
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ODIN, IL
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